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One Lap of the Web: The lost F-Type, a velvet Panamera and Lutz on being king

April 29, 2013

The Jaguar XJ41 may have been the F-Type...if Ford hadn't bought the company. Photo by Jaguar

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about.

-- Long before there was a Jaguar F-Type, there was the XJ41, originally conceived to be a lightweight successor to the XKE. Things didn't work out quite that way, and Autocar takes a closer look at why.

-- Rob Sass at Hagerty casts his vote for the coolest car names of all time. While the list is subjective, they're all better than the lame alphanumeric stew we get today -- it's hard to see MKT or A8 showing up anytime in the future.